A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Vista Foundation 48Hours: Shot Weekend
Get a team together for some guerilla filmmaking this weekend.
Uni-Fi and Overdrive
Two great Gizzy bands take to the Smash Palace stage this weekend. Smash Palace, Saturday, from 9pm. $10 at the door.
Gisborne Ballet Group Dancing Competitions
War Memorial Theatre, Saturday and Sunday. Cash-only tickets from the venue.
COMING UP
111 Duo
Come along to hear all of your favourite songs. Boulevard Bar, Cosmopolitan Club, 190 Derby Street, Friday, August 19, 8pm, free entry.
One One One
Don't miss the legendary rockers One One One, back for one night only. Smash Palace, Saturday August 20, 9pm. $10 at the door.
The Boss — Bruce Springsteen Tribute War Memorial Theatre, August 25, 7.30pm. Tickets from ticketek or Gisborne i-SITE.
Reb Fountain IRIS Tour
With touring plans curtailed in 2021, Reb Fountain welcomes the opportunity to bring her latest album IRIS to life with her band in 2022. Dome Room, Friday, August 26, 7.30pm. Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz
Movement and Remembrance Concert
The Gisborne Civic Orchestra presents an hour of music by Bernstein, Franck, Peter Maxwell Davies, Beethoven, Brahms and more. Koha entry. St Andrew's Church, 176 Cobden Street, Sunday, August 21, 3pm.
Rock of Ages
Gisborne Centre Stage presents Rock of Ages, coming to Lawson Field Theatre August 12 to 20. R16. Tickets from ticketek or from the Gisborne i-SITE.
A Vicar of Dibley Christmas auditions
Musical Theatre Gisborne is looking for two characters to join the cast for this hilarious sequel to be directed by Beatrice Papazoglou. Auditions on Saturday from 10am, MTG clubrooms, 101 Innes Street.
Rising Stars Performance: The Nutcracker Prince
Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli St, August 17 to 20. Tickets from trybooking.com
Avenue Q
Musical Theatre Gisborne, postponed to September 8 to 17. Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz or i-SITE.
Gisborne Artists, Potters and Photographers annual exhibition
This year's combined exhibition of the Gisborne Artists, Potters and Photographers will showcase a diverse range of artworks, ceramics and photography. Tairāwhiti Museum, until September 25.
Pick and Mix: Allsorts
An exhibition of artists with varied cultures, skills and a shared passion for art: Sue-Ann Blandford, Amber Graham, Kiri-Ana Tough and Maiko Lewis-Whaanga. Tairāwhiti Museum until September 4.
Salt
A photographic exhibition by Phil Yeo. The portrait series considers our collective and individual identities and was produced during 2020, as the global pandemic changed our world. Tairāwhiti Museum until August 21.
Beginnings: Adventures on the way to painting
This exhibition consists of 31 paintings dating from 1956 when the artist Peter Ireland was 9 until the later 1990s when he was middle-aged, plus a mass of documentary material in vitrines, all charting his very zig-zagging course as a self-taught painter. Tairāwhiti Museum, opening August 27.
Nope
Two siblings running a horse ranch in California discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, while the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, other-worldly phenomenon.
Laal Singh Chaddha
A Hindi remake of Forrest Gump.
Raksha Bandhan
Hindi-language family comedy-drama.
Bullet Train
Five assassins find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their missions are not unrelated to each other.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Kya raised herself in the marshlands of North Carolina. Drawn to two young men from town, she opens herself to a new and startling world. However, when one of them is found dead, Kya immediately becomes the main suspect.
Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor embarks on a quest for inner peace. But he is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, who seeks the extinction of the gods. Stars Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Taika Waititi (who also directed) and Russell Crowe.
Elvis
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Stars Austin Butler as Elvis, Tom Hanks as Colonel Parker and Olivia De Jonge as Priscilla Presley.
Minions: The Rise of Gru
In the 1970s, young Gru tries to join a group of supervillains called the Vicious 6 after they oust their leader — the legendary fighter Wild Knuckles. When the interview turns bad, Gru and his Minions go on the run with the Vicious 6 hot on their tails.
Whina
Rena Owen, Miriama McDowell, James Rolleston, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne and Vinnie Bennett star in a film that follows the life of Māori leader Dame Whina Cooper.
The Quiet Girl
A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents in rural Ireland for the 1981 summer. She blossoms in their care, but discovers one painful truth.
Top Gun: Maverick
After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is now a test pilot. Called in to train a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past.
Mountain Film Festival
Episode 2 of a two-part collection of films celebrating the adventurous life.
Frocks and Divas
Initially a small event to empower women and bring their community together, Tarnished Frocks and Divas grew in popularity to become a nationwide event.
The Gardener
Shortly before his death at the age of 86, influential gardener and horticulturalist Frank Cabot recounted his personal quest for perfection at Les Quatre Vents, his eight-hectare English-style garden and summer estate that was opened to a film crew for the first time in 2009. Nestled among the rolling hills of the Charlevoix County in Quebec, Les Quatre Vents has become one of the world's foremost private gardens. Created over 75 years and three generations, it is an enchanted place of beauty and surprise.
Ruby's Choice
Jane Seymour plays Ruby in this Australian film about how a family comes to terms with the arrival of their mother and grandmother, who has dementia and who must live with them.
Murina
Tensions rise between a restless teenager and her father when a family friend arrives at their Croatian island home.
Victory at nationals means place in Team NZ for Hip Hope Unite World Champs.